In no book, paper, thesis, T.V., documentary has Lewis Carrol EVER been put forth as Jack The Ripper and I should know, because I’ve read or seen ALL of these!
I'm not sure where I saw it, but there was supposedly a theory that Carroll was the Ripper. At any rate, I wasn't endorsing it--merely showing how one can read anything they want into children's books.
Professor Dodgson must have been a strange one. A math freak egghead who liked to take photos of naked young girls (apparently without ever abusing or harming them in any way) who was simultaneously a minor order clergyman in the Anglican Church. He may have even been doctrinally orthodox (unlike L. Frank Baum, the [Republican] anti-chrstian new-ager proto-feminist).
Nineteenth Century American politics were a hoot!
I can see the geniuses are out tonight!
I was looking at one really wonderful photo of Alice Lidell - she looked like Louise Brooks in all her come hither beauty. That is enough to send the 21st century puritans into overdrive. Remember the movie with Ian Holm?